Website Security News
Black hat SEO spam is the plague of the internet, and the big search engines take it seriously. One of the worst spam tactics on the internet is becoming more common every day – innocent websites hacked, and their best pages begin linking to spam….
Read More about Combat Black Hat SEO Infections with SEO Insights
Here at Sucuri we handle countless cases of SEO spam. This malware involves a website being compromised in order to spread (mostly pharmaceutical) advertisements by linking visitors to unwanted websites…
Blackhat SEO spam comes in many forms, and one of the most nefarious is hijacked search results. This happens when search engines crawl and display unwanted content in the title…
Read More about Analyzing and Cleaning Hijacked Google SEO Spam Results
Here at Sucuri we see countless cases of SEO spam where a website is compromised in order to spread pharmaceutical advertisements or backlinks to sites selling luxury goods. Most of…
Read More about Bogus Mobile-Shortcuts WordPress Plugin Injects SEO Spam
Every once in a while we get a glimpse into rare and strange behavior that doesn’t involve the website being hacked, but causes major problems for website owners. We have…
A common trend lately is SPAM getting added to WordPress blogs. Attackers are using this to increase their page rank on search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc. So, if you…
One of the most important metrics used by search engines to rank a site is the number of link backs that it has. The more links a site has for…
Read More about Payday Loan Spam affecting Thousands of Sites
Nobody likes spam. It’s never fun (unless you’re watching Monty Python). For us it comes with the territory; removing SEO spam has been at the core of what we deal…
Today we are not going to explore malware or any other overtly malicious traffic. Instead this post is a warning about dishonest marketing tactics used by services claiming to improve…
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Read More about Blog Comments – Analysing 100,000 Comments and Spammers
Robots (bots) have outnumbered people on the Internet for almost two years, and they browse much faster than your average visitor. Aside from spamming your comment systems and crawling for vulnerable…
